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2015年4月15日星期三

How to get more and more orders from customers

In today's condition of information explosion, the business is more and more difficult. Especially in the global financial crisis period, feelings will be deeper. Therefore, in this adverse environment and more fierce competition, how to get orders is very important.
Try to improve overall quality, the higher of the overall quality, the more appealing.
We often encounter a situation: on the same question, someone will find very excellent answer, his clarity, logic, feasibility are all above the crowd. Why? Because of the high overall quality. Therefore, We must pay attention to learning, attention to the accumulation of experience, attention to learn from the experience, pay attention to constantly improve our self-serving to speak and act. As the saying goes: "do business must first learn how to be a good man",  in fact, it is not only integrity, more important is to have a high ideological and cultural taste. So when in contact with the customer, it will make people feel your outstanding, they will admire and believe you before do business with you. Thus, after several contacts and then the customer and you will tend to become friends, and slowly became "buddies child." Then there will be a lot of business after that.
Written by Shirley Xia from Wonderful PCB company

2015年3月9日星期一

Electroless Copper Plating


Metallization is required on the wall of the drill holes to make them conductive. It can be done by chemical deposition or direct metallization. For double layer boards, chemical deposition is common. It is an electroless process because the deposition of copper is done in the absence of electrical current. The objective of the electroless copper plating process is to deposit a very thin layer of copper over the entire surface of the copper cladding and on bare hole walls. This layer should be thick enough to allow the electrical current during the subsequent electrolytic plating. Normally, a thickness of 0.001 Mil to 0.0025 Mil is acceptable for further electroplating at low start current. The thickness of the PTH will be increased to the required level after the electrolytic copper plating.

Several proprietary solutions are available for making electroless copper. Basically, a precious metal palladium is being used as an activator to provide a site for the adhesion of electroless copper. Electroless copper bath contains an alkaline chelated copper reducing solution that deposits thin layer of copper on activated surface.
The thickness of electroless copper needed can be observed from the following table which gives the thickness of copper foil on Aluminum pcb. For reliable operation, PTH wall thickness should be around 0.7 Mil to 1 Mil.

Electroless copper plating process is consists of 4 baths; acid predip bath, activator bath, postactivator bath and electroless copper bath. Most of the process can be done at room temperature. We'll use PTH process chemicals from Enthone-OMI as an example. Circuitprep 3023 is used to prepare the acid predip bath. It is a low acid solution to replace a bath of high concentration hydrochloride acid. An immersion for 1 - 2 minutes in Circuitprep 3023 is sufficient to attain balance in the activator bath. The preparation of this bath is simple, 100% concentration is needed. It should be noted that no water should be allowed from this bath onward until the PTH process is completed.

The next bath is the Circuitprep 3316 palladium catalystic process. Major ingredients are palladium chloride and hydrochloric acid. This is a catalyst for electroless deposition on insulators. This process should provide uniform void-free metal coverage in holes and good electroless copper to copper clad adhesion.

The next bath is the Circuitprep 4044 postactivator process. Working in conjunction with CP3316, CP4044 accelerates the initial deposition of copper onto an activated surface. Mechanical agitation is required to ensure the removal of air bubbles in the holes and a complete wetting of the PCB. The active ingredient is fluoboric acid. It remove the protective stannous from the CP3316 so that electroless copper can adhere to the activated surface easily.

Enplate CU-406 concentrates are used for electroless copper disposition. Heater is normally required in electroless copper bath. The solution itself is highly unstable and we made use of its thermal property to restrict the displacement of copper from the solution. Thus, depending on the formula, temperature can be used to control the process so that it won't precipitate all the copper when the solution is idling. In fact, a cooling coil can be installed in the bath to cool it down to around 12 ° C to save it for a longer period in time.